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Sophia Loren: There is a...

Sophia Loren: There is a...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of...

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Sophia Loren: Everything you see...

Sophia Loren: Everything you see...

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams,...

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Deborah Kerr: Years from now,...

Deborah Kerr: Years from now,...

Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.

Source: In Tea and...

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Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

This place certainly reeks of hospitality and good cheer, or maybe it's this cheese.

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Donna Reed: If nuclear power...

Donna Reed: If nuclear power...

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of...

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Maya Ying Lin: If you don't...

Maya Ying Lin: If you don't...

If you don't learn history accurately, how can you learn?

Source: In First She...

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Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

Diane Arbus: There's a quality...

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a...

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Louise Nevelson: I think most...

Louise Nevelson: I think most...

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The [commune] movement...

The [commune] movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the...

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Joanna Baillie: How do men...

Joanna Baillie: How do men...

How do men act, when they together stand,
on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck?
Do they not bravely...

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Audre Lorde: I train myself...

Audre Lorde: I train myself...

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Source: The Cancer...

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Letitia Landon: How disappointment tracks...

Letitia Landon: How disappointment tracks...

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We flatter those...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We flatter those...

We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,/And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

Whoopi Goldberg: I am an...

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Pearl Bailey: The fact is...

Pearl Bailey: The fact is...

The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of...

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Imelda Marcos: I get so...

Imelda Marcos: I get so...

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so...

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Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Source:...

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Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

Zora Neale Hurston: No matter how...

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Source: In...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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